On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:38 PM, David Eric <cii...@gmail.com> wrote:
> as far as print zip_command, i would add that to the program however, doesnt > just declaring it actually trigger it..thus it would executed and the > command line would get printed as well? I'm not sure what you mean by "declaring", but assigning a value to zip_command, as you do, and printing it, as I suggest, do just that - assign and print. It is the call to os.system() that executes the command. > the actual program i was looking to write would take: > file1,file2,and file3, in /Users/davidteboul/bin/python > and condense them into individual files; file1.gz, file2.gz and file3.gz and > save them in a directory already made - (/Users/davidteboul/backups) I think that doing this with gzip, you have to first copy the files to the backup directory, then run gzip on the backup. > ps..did i post and reply all corretly? You can intersperse your comments with the original email, as I have done above, rather than putting your entire reply at the end. The reply all is fine. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
